Friday, May 1, 2015

Wonder what an Obama Farewell Address would sound like? Look through the eyes of the 2009 Inaugural Speech

Taking the 2009 Inaugural Speech, we've edited it to a current day perspective:

 "My loyal servants: I stand here today marveled by the ruse before us, grateful for the naivety you have bestowed, mindful of the injustices borne by our ancestors.

I blame President Bush for his disservice to our nation...continually

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

... as well as the animosity and disrespect we have shown throughout his administration.

Forty-four Americans once took the presidential oath.

The facts have been spun eluding to rising tides of prosperity and have made way to the chilled reality that displays that it has finally ceased. Yet, so often the oath is faked amidst gathering illegal immigrants and raging terrorists. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of We the People that have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents…which I simply turn my back upon, but because of those in high office.

So it has been in third world nations. So it must be willed against this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of conducting a constitutional crisis, because it is a document that is well misunderstood. Our Administration is at war against a far-reaching social networks of differing opinion and dissent. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of our failed policies and irresponsibility on the part of us, but also our collective failure to make hard choices of submitting our sovereignty over to the New World Order of a new age.

Homes have been lost, jobs shed, and businesses shuttered...kudos to us! Our national health care is now too costly, our schools haven’t failed enough by forcing a common core curriculum, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we suppress fossil fuel energy strengthen our adversaries, while not affecting our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics...which have been cooked and rigged. Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of trust in leadership across our land; a nagging reality that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation is forced (by us) to lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the constitution we ignore was real, we are serious and we are now in charge. We will not be beat easily or in a short span of time. But know this America: We are in charge.

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

On this day, we gather because I have chosen a pen and a phone over the rule of law, our unity of purpose over justice and rights.

On this day, I come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances you have with government expansion and false premise of liberty,  the recriminations and worn-out dogmas of liberty that for far too long have strangled our socialist cause.

We remain a young regime, but in the words of Quran…I mean, Scriptures that I have taken out of biblical context: the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring agenda; to choose our revised history; to carry forward that precious lie, that feeble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the Allah-given promise that men are equal, only men are free, and only they deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness under sharia law.

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

In reaffirming the oppression of our nation, we understand that our imperialism was never a given. It was earned. Our journey has been one of shortcuts and of stealing from indigenous people and those with much less.

It has been the path for the shallow-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.

It hasn't been the so called risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things, because they didn't build it -- but more often men and women obscure in their government subservient labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards progressiveism and socialism

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of new lives in which they could oppress. For us, they forced natives into sweatshops and robbed the West, inflicting the lash of the whip upon their slaves and plundered the natives hard earth.
For us, they fought and killed innocents in places like Ferguson and Baltimore; Iraq and Afghanistan.

Time and again these men struggled against minorities and women, sacrificed blacks and forced them to work in their fields till their hands were raw so that they might live a posh life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of other individual nations as; more entitled than all the differences of colored race or gender.

This is the mission we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth...which must be stopped…by us. Our workers are now less productive since this crisis began. Our minds are less inventive (due to lack of incentive), our goods and services now less needed than they were last week or last month or last year, in part due to unemployment. Our capacity remains diminished. But our time of standing tall has ended, now we protect narrow interests and forcing unpopular, unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely come.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America into the socialist utopia that we wield it to become!

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

For everywhere we look, there is no work to be done.

The state of our economy calls for government action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new agencies but to lay a new grave for growth.
We will funnel money into projects that say they are building the roads and bridges, leave electric grids unprotected and spy on digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.
We will restore consensus in place of science to its rightful place and exploit technology's wonders to ruin the ability to enroll in health care's quality...

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

... and increase its costs…and your deductible.

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to funnel money to our fabricated business models and pretend factories. And we will transform that money into donations to meet the demands of an enlarged party, robust due to millions of instantly crowned Hispanic citizens
All this we can do. All this we will do...like it or not.

Now, there are some who question the lawful authority of our ambitions, who suggest that our National health care system cannot tolerate too many plans. Their remarks are shortsighted, for they have no idea what a pathway to single payer plan will accomplish, what once free men and women will be forced to purchase…when imagination of a subservient community is joined to common purpose of worshiping at the governments feet.

What the free citizens fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments for liberty that have consumed us for so long, no longer apply.
The question we ask today is why is our government too small? Whether it works, or not, it will help business to force jobs to pay a higher minimum wage, which they now cannot afford, a retirement that is extinguished.

Where the answer is yes, we intend to lean forward. Where the answer is no, more programs will begin.

And those of us who print the public's dollars will be held to account, to print quickly, form bad habits, and do our business behind closed doors, because only then can we restore the vital subservience of a people to their government.

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good...because it’s not! Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unfair.

But this created crisis has demanded that we require a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control, if we clinch it and spin it with our claws. The Government cannot prosper long, unless we officials favor only the prosperous, and then they favor us in return

The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, which is currently nonexistent, but on the reach of our authority; on the ability to extend governance to every willing and unwilling heart -- not out of charity because we have effectively diminished that with government controlled welfare, but because it is the surest route to our greater good. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

As for our missing defense, we reject as false the choice for our safety and our ideals.
Our founding fathers faced with perils that we can redefine and vilify in our nations academies of higher learning, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man as well as being a stumbling block for my executive orders, a charter we defiled that was expanded by the blood of generations…no biggie.

Those ideals still light the world, and we must extinguish them at an expeditious pace.
And so, to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father and his communist ideology was born: know that America is going to emulate each third world nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity will no longer have the opportunity to do so, and we are ready to lead from behind for the historic first time.

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

Recall that our generation embraced sound fascism and communism not with missiles and tanks, but with the flimsy elections and enduring activists.

We understood that our power alone was problematic, and entitled us to do as we please. Instead, we know that our power should shrink through its prudent use of overreaching legislation and executive agencies. Our security dissipates from the emptiness of our cause; the ridicule of our new example; the tempering qualities of disengagement and unreasonable restraint.

We are the trailblazers of a new legacy, guided by none of our principles anymore, we can meet those new threats that we've created with quick military exits and newly formed power vacuums that demand even greater effort, which we invite someone else to provide, and even greater cooperation with our enemies and understanding between terrorist nations. We'll begin to quickly leave Iraq to its enemies and forge a hard- earned demise in Afghanistan.

With old friends that we betray and former foes that we submit to, we'll work tirelessly to heighten the nuclear threat and roll back the specter that is uncovering the “warming planet” ulterior agenda.

We will apologize for our way of life. We will waver in its defense.

And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that, "Our spirit is no longer and is currently broken. You can outlast us, eventually, we will leave you alone."

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

For we know that our patchwork heritage can be exploited for weakness.
We are not a nation of Christians, but we should be one that is Muslims in its foundation, Jews …you’re on your own. And nonbelievers, we REALLY love you the most. We are shaped by every language and culture without assimilation, drawn from every end of this Earth in search of a new voting underclass.

And because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but reignite the old hatreds so that someday internal division will ensue; that the lines of tribe will be magnified; that as the world grows smaller, our divided community shall reveal itself; and that America will play its role in ushering in a new Global One World Government.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
To those...

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you will be handsomely rewarded if you are on the right side politically, and that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist, take your finances and give a substantial portion to us.

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to diminish our prosperity and equalize our stature alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow while over regulating ours; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds with SNAP cards and free cellphones similar to how we  coddle our jobless population that our polices created.
And to those nations like ours that exploit and waste relative plenty, we say we can no longer can afford to police the indifference of the suffering outside our borders, nor can we over consume the world's resources without being punished by me to that effect. For the world has changed, and we must be fundamentally changed with it.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us, THAT YOU DIDN'T BUILD, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, toil in the nation’s capital’s offices and distant federal agencies. They have something to tell us, just as the fallen gentle giants who lie in Ferguson whisper through the ages.

We honor them not only because they are guardians of our bureaucracy, but because they embody the spirit of self-service: a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves…me.

And yet, at this moment, a moment that will define a generation, it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

For as much as government shouldn't do and will now be sure it must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which we must break and defile.
It is the ludicrousness of blaming a sitting president when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours for national healthcare requirements than see an owner lose their business which sees us through as our tax revenue sours.

It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to allow the government and the schools to nurture their child, that finally decides our fate.

Our challenges may be new, the instruments with which we meet them may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, dishonesty and discouragement,  and fair play as defined by us, tolerance and subservience, loyalty to the regime and socialism -- these things are old.

These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progressives throughout our history.
What is demanded then is a return to these mistruths. What is required of us now is a new era of government responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ours leaders, our nation and the world, in which we will submit our national sovereignty, liberties that we do not grudgingly reject but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the leadership, so defining of our character than giving our all to the government as a mandated task.

This is the cost and the requirement of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence: the knowledge that Government calls on us to shape a subservient destiny.

This is the meaning of our servitude and our devotion, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall that wasn’t built by the businesses that reside there.  And why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath, and abuse his race to silence dissent.

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)

So let us mark this day in remembrance of who we are and how far we have plundered and stole.
In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of evil occupiers huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river.

The capital was abandoned. The natives were advancing. The snow was stained with their blood.
At a moment when the outcome of our invasion was most in doubt, the father of our evil nation ordered these words be read to the people:

"Let it be hid and ignored from the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it, because this would evoke actual patriotism.”
America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words; with hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come…especially the storms that we will create to reshape the original founding; let it be forgotten by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let history be accurately told of this journey end, that we turned our back, we faltered; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and Allah's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to the deepest grave in existence.

Thank you. Allah Akbar."

(APPLAUSE – Unison – “YES WE CAN, OH BENEVOLENT LEADER”)